Compliments of the Season

[alanforduk]

Ditto, Alan

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "dunelm61" <dunelm@...> wrote:
>
> I just wanted to wish everyone on this group a very merry Christmas 
> and a happy and prosperous New Year.
> 
> 2008 has been a great year for this group, in particular due to the 
> acquisition of the tapes on eBay. Just consider. A group of 
> individuals, most of whom had never met each other, pooled their 
> resources and – entirely on trust – deposited their own money in an 
> account so that these recordings could be saved for posterity. 
Since 
> when some have gone to the trouble and expense of collating, 
> digitising and sharing the shows for no personal reward except for 
> the sincere gratitude of the rest of us.
> 
> This process has been one of the best things about 2008 and, at a 
> time of easy cynicism, does much to restore one's faith in human 
> nature.
> 
> (For my part, I'm still working on a Tim Burton-style "re-
imagining" 
> of the 29 August 1977 Punk Special which I hope will be ready early 
> in the New Year).
> 
> Cheers to everyone.
>